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the agricultural-physiological institute of the university. In 1887 he also assumed 

 charge of the agricultural-chemical institute at Hie same place. Professor Stohmann 

 had heen associated with agricultural investigation since 1857, and had made numer- 

 ous contributions, especially on the nutrition of plauts and animals. Of late years 

 he had devoted his attention largely to calorimetric investigation of the constitu- 

 ents of foods and feeding stuffs, in which field he had been for some time a recognized 

 authority. 



A New Irrigation Journal. — The first number of the Irrigation Review (pp. 

 52, figs. 12), edited by D. W. Working and published at Denver, Colorado, by the 

 Irrigation Publishing Company, bears date ot .September, 1897. It is stated that 

 "the new journal will be devoted to the development of irrigation iu its larger and 

 broader phases. Its field will be the discussion of all the problems incident to irri- 

 gation, such, for example, as the practical, legal, scientific, and economic questions 

 that arise by reason of the practice and development of irrigation as an exceedingly 

 necessary and profitable part of the great agricultural industry." 



The first number contains, besides editorial and miscellaneous notes, articles on The 

 cession of the arid lands, by J. S. Greene; Water — the (jueen of beauty and harvest, 

 by Alva Adams; The financial side of irrigation, by J. E. Leet; The National Irriga- 

 tion Congress; Problems confronting the settler on the plains, by J. E. Payne; The 

 experiment stations at work; Irrigation in humid climates (which is a summary of 

 Farmers' Bulletin 46 of this Department); The increasing importance of irrigation, 

 by W. M. Hays; and The construction of irrigation reservoirs, by E. B. Cowgill. 



